Master Class (Masterplots II: Drama, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Terrence McNally
- First Published: 1995
- Type of Plot: Biographical; musical
- Time of Work: 1971
- Setting: Juilliard School of Music, New York City
- Principal Characters: Manny Weinstock, Maria Callas, Sophie de Palma, Sharon Graham, Anthony Candolino
- Genres: Drama, Biographical drama, Opera
- Subjects: Teaching or teachers, Memory, Music or musicians, Art or artists, Singing or singers, Success or failure, Entertaining or entertainers, Students or student life, Nostalgia, Aging, Performing arts, Opera, operas, or operettas
- Locales: New York, NY
The Play
Master Class is based on the master classes given by the renowned real-life opera singer Maria Callas at the Juilliard School of Music in New York City in 1971 and 1972. In the play’s two acts, Maria’s interactions with her students are interspersed with reminiscences of her stormy life.
After Maria enters, wearing expensive clothes, she tells the audience there must be no applause because this is a working session. Music, she says, is a demanding discipline. There are no short cuts to success. She tells of how, during World War II, she used to walk...
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